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What if the rise of ISIS could have been prevented -- with just one airstrike? That's a question that Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst, has had to grapple with ever since the group's brutal rise to power.
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Colin Powell: U.N. Speech "Was a Great Intelligence Failure"
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS, was still an unknown jihadist during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Colin Powell's 2003 speech to the United Nations would help change that.
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David Petraeus: "No Substitute" for U.S. Leadership in Iraq, Syria
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How U.S. Prisons in Iraq Became "Jihadi Universities" for ISIS
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Since its brutal rise to power, ISIS has recognized affiliates in nine nations beyond its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
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The founding father of ISIS emerged from a Jordanian prison dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic caliphate -- and there was a moment more than a decade ago when CIA insiders say they could have stopped him.
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WATCH: 400 Meters From ISIS in the Battle for Benghazi
Nearly five years after Muammar Qaddafi's ouster, Libya is now ISIS’s biggest base outside of Syria and Iraq. As a new FRONTLINE documentary shows, the fight against the terror group there is intensifying.
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